Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2014 20:56:21 +0200 From: Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl> To: "William A. Mahaffey III" <wam@hiwaay.net> Cc: FreeBSD Questions !!!! <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: How to transfer Mail from old machine to new FreeBSD box .... Message-ID: <20140812185621.GA7166@slackbox.erewhon.home> In-Reply-To: <53EA391E.9050609@hiwaay.net> References: <53EA391E.9050609@hiwaay.net>
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--Dxnq1zWXvFF0Q93v Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 10:56:14AM -0500, William A. Mahaffey III wrote: >=20 >=20 > .... Well, I am down to the snorting post, the last task I need to=20 > complete before putting my new FreeBSD 9.3 box into service, replacing=20 > this one (AMD64X2 3800+, FC14 64-bit, terminally patched up several=20 > years ago). Unfortunately, it looks like a bit of a doozy. I need to get= =20 > the Mail directory from the old machine to the new one. To start with, I= =20 > just copied the whole thing. 35 min. later when it was done, I invoked=20 > T-bird on the FreeBSD box & none of the Mail-directory was visible :-/.= =20 > That method worked AOK the last time I used it, 10+ years ago when I put= =20 > the old box into service :-). That was also the last time I tried, last= =20 > time I needed to do that. Is what I am doing supposed to work ? If not,= =20 > how am I supposed to do this ? Mind you, there are yearly archives going= =20 > back into the '90's, which I want preserved. The whole Mail directory is= =20 > ~20 GiB :-/ .... thunderbird.x86_64 17.0.7-1.fc14.remi on the Fedora=20 > box, thunderbird 31 on the FreeBSD (box std,) .... TIA for any pointers .= =2E.. Check the permissions and ownership on the folders and files. Even if your username and group name are the same, the *numerical* UID and GID might be different. Is thunderbird configured the same on both machines. Roland --=20 R.F.Smith http://rsmith.home.xs4all.nl/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 5753 3324 1661 B0FE 8D93 FCED 40F6 D5DC A38A 33E0 (keyID: A38A33E0) --Dxnq1zWXvFF0Q93v Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJT6mNVAAoJEED21dyjijPgOFQQAKumEp7tCwNDw6tIA75FWuEr TkUtTYBo+EP+FPASTG99zt+p+H7jF+uyEwKkbhX4pLboP68mHXw9PLA8C492IkXI 4JBMXSL2lBPOvhV8zbheV6QpBRg8+kj4qnD+DAzGDykiFw1w/28dpn6Y11ZqyOT4 TJugW7e1Cw03VvkZm1m4ZtwB/3sCKCChNKkKqfn+W5yrZWE1/s6iDmU+mZrxs93p HPfjwU/YT1va8N6bJ/mseX+XN7+KopdbsxeCkGN1W8YNZGbxC1dknsLOMD4TvSXk NFb48wvu1MpeSkEGB8sCpoA4v9804XsrMpHcNmty4LIo01jL5iHScn1H3Yery4BR GzMOfH1w7fqEVPcebMyKxp2jc1x89vAUGD0n0AGDEfvRctO2aKkVuSXV87RxYTGF 6dxy49ZvHk2R2DHLD+Y4XlIQbiy+med5XHiPi767Rqg/X49EVJlPg6rPGcq8QXv4 ZL3zhsZinmQvCLScZFxRZDYGIrIIuD8BACYUckl6U0Sj3x8U7bQlodDrcteb++UM sJuY+RZvksJ5j6hk4xWTN5RdfHwr3EbGw7dc9WjGqd6ghCBIvQfnhr99UKv/6los i2r8QwUtpU/4f6A7aBc9WiZdPwPzfhDhtwy7rjapWhdNJ8+WBWheo2ifqENEmAcd sw2yrFDK1odb7L33iZfZ =BVm+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Dxnq1zWXvFF0Q93v--
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